Have you ever been Experienced?

[Astromut]

I have a Fleet that gets into combat.

It wins.

It gains no experience.

BUG?

How do you earn fleet experience?
What effect does it have?

"You put your peanut butter in MY chocolate."......"NO, YOU put your Chocolate in my peanut butter!"

[raynor]

To tell the truth, I never pay any attention to the experience level of my ships *or* my fleet. It never seems to make much difference one way or the other.

Is it possible that the fleet *did* gain some experience but just not enough to show anything? Maybe the fleet has to win a whole lot more battles before you see noticeable improvement?

[DirkHowitzer]

Have You Been Experienced...lol, sounds like the Jimmy Hendrix album...;-)

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[Hota]

In my current game both my fleets and my ships have gained experience from combat.

Hota

[DirectorTsaarx]

AFAIK, experience is supposed to grant to-hit bonuses and to-not-be-hit bonuses. However, ISTR that only ship experience really counts for this; fleet experience doesn't seem to be applied to anything. And ship experience is only gained by destroying things with direct-fire weapons. If you destroy a ship/planet/base with missiles, you get no experience for the kill. OTOH, using PD cannon DOES coutnt for experience: each fighter, each missile, and each satellite killed counts for experience. So put a couple PD Cannon on each ship, put them in battle against fighters/missiles/satellites, and watch the experience grow!

As for fleet experience: I'm not certain about this, but I think fleet experience is the average experience gained by the ships in the fleet since the time the fleet was created. In other words, if you have three ships with 20% experience each and merge them into a fleet, the fleet experience starts at 0%. If one ship increases to 30%, the fleet experience would be 3% (10 point increase, divided by three ships). But I could be WAY off on this...

[Lion of High Park]

Yup. I have had ships gain experience from combat with time as well. The other trick, of course, is to build ship and fleet training facilities (military science level 2) in whatever system you use as your main staging area.